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Rumor: PSP2 Already In the Works, About as Powerful as the First-Gen Xbox
Next PSP Due Before Christmas, Will Feature TWO Thumbsticks??
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Andyr2120
07/07/09

In reply to Rumor: PSP2 Already In the Works, About as Powerful as the First-Gen Xbox
So the PSP is roughly as powerful as a PS2, per Sony. And the PSP2 will be roughly as powerful as Xbox 1. But Sony said that the PS2 was more powerful than the original Xbox...
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Monty
07/07/09

@Andyr2120: Doing my usual "full on retarded" routine of stating the obvious: The power of game systems is useful, however ultimately meaningless when the developers are the ones that hold all the cards. The Xbox may have been more powerful than the PS2, but ultimately they were a far second to Sony and their exclusive titles. The PS3 is arguably the greatest game hardware ever made, and it is obvious how well that is going. The PSP has been a money maker for Sony, but only barely - and the power of the platform has never been the issue. It is the hubris of the parent company that is the primary factor for the game machine market being a three-way race.

Sorry, you knew all of this, but I am under contract to write stuff like this occasionally.
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strider_mt2k
07/07/09

In reply to Rumor: PSP2 Already In the Works, About as Powerful as the First-Gen Xbox
Let me know when it's hacked. :D
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dallasmay2
07/07/09

In reply to Rumor: PSP2 Already In the Works, About as Powerful as the First-Gen Xbox
How is this surprising? Of course they already have it in the works. What do you think that Apple only works on one generation of iPod at a time? Do you not think that Microsoft is not currently working on Windows 8 as well? Car companies show off cars that can't won't be in production for a better part of a decade.

Why is this so surprising?
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N@tedog
07/07/09

@dallasmay2: This is internet journalism. Exclamation marks turn heads.
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Serolf Divad
04/07/09

In reply to Next PSP Due Before Christmas, Will Feature TWO Thumbsticks??
Two thumbsticks means I'll buy it. Any less than two and I won't. It's taht simple. I loves my first person shooters.
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Seiven
04/07/09

In reply to Next PSP Due Before Christmas, Will Feature TWO Thumbsticks??
hell yeah...I am all up for this, but give us a USB accessory to play old UMDs...kinda like backwards compatability for PSP.
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Tom Jun
04/07/09

In reply to Next PSP Due Before Christmas, Will Feature TWO Thumbsticks??
that's some quality 'reporting'. relaying a rumor from another blogging gaming interest site. it would be ignorant to make it look anything like the product in the picture. controlling the portable device would be more than an annoyance. physically, there's not many faults with the first psp except that the joystick would make your thumb cramp because it was located so low.
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ceilingFANBOY
04/07/09

@Tom Jun: Why exactly to you come here if you don't like rumors? It would be one thing if they didn't state that this was a rumor in the tag. As far as rumors go, anyway, this one is pretty solid. Well, at least parts of it are solid. There is a good reason for posting such a rumor because it could affect the purchasing decision of someone looking to get a PSP in the future or someone who is looking to replace a PSP.
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ZetaCrossfire
04/07/09

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Wait if they ditch the UMD will we be reinburst for the games we already own? I own 10 PSP games so will i only be able to play them on the old PSP? wtf? This seems liek sony is screwing us
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N@tedog
04/07/09

@ZetaCrossfire: I know!!! Total BS. I mean, I just bought a new car and the wheels from my old car don't fit on the new one. WTF!?!?! The engine didn't fit either!!! How are they getting away with this?!?!?!
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ceilingFANBOY
04/07/09

@ZetaCrossfire: Don't go screaming Sony is trying to screw us before more details are available. For all we know, they could have created some kind of solution, such as a UMD ripping tool that you can download.

@Noobs-R-Us: It's 4 years old, just like the DS, which is being replaced by the DSi. The GB Advance had only been out 3 years before the DS came out. The GB Color a little less than 3 years before that. The GB Pocket 2 years before that. The original GB was the only one that had a long life span before being replaced. 4 years for a handheld is a pretty long life. The problem with keeping backwards compatibility in this case is that it would hinder Sony from doing what they want to do with their system unless their backward compatibility solution is in the form of downloads.

Which of course, sounds very plausible. As it is, they already want to have more of their releases simultaneously get released as a download and a UMD release. [kotaku.com]
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Ninja Peach
04/07/09

@ceilingFANBOY: UMD ripping tool???! That would be the tombstone for Sony's profits on the PSP, lol.
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ceilingFANBOY
04/07/09

@Ninja Peach: You know that any ripped UMDs would be so filled with DRM that you wouldn't be able to put it onto more than one PSP. Even then, this would only apply to existing games if they eventually stopped releasing games on UMD, anyway. Besides, that was just a suggestion of a possibility. They could just put all of their games up on the PSN and then offer them as downloads. Perhaps they would even have some kind of verification tool that if you own the game then the download would be cheaper so it would be similar to when iTunes offered an upgrade to DRM free files for a portion of the cost.
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weatherman
04/07/09

In reply to Next PSP Due Before Christmas, Will Feature TWO Thumbsticks??
I don't expect it'll look a lot like the above image - it'll probably be more of mashup of the existing PSP and the defunkt Sony MYLO
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prometeum
04/07/09

@weatherman: with a touchscreen and WinMo this would have been a great phone, mini tablet way before the iPhone. it's shame Sony didn't think of it.
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weatherman
04/07/09

@prometeum: I agree - the MyLO was actually an interesting device that never really got off the ground because it wasn't quite an iPod Touch and it wasn't quite a smartphone. Turns out right in the middle is sometimes exactly where you don't want to be.
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AkronZip
04/07/09

In reply to Next PSP Due Before Christmas, Will Feature TWO Thumbsticks??
I have always loved the Playstation, but I could never get into the PSP. It just didn't interest me anymore, until now. If it does look like this, I may just have to buy one for those long trips. I would really love if this could play DVDs as well, possibly store them on an SD memory card. It would be perfect for watching movies, well at least better than my iPhone. I can't wait to see it.
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TheSonOfKrypton
04/07/09

@AkronZip: I'm sorry, but how exactly would it be better than your iPhone for viewing movies? I had a PSP....Thought it was the shitnitz for viewing videos/watching movies....Until I got an iPhone. iPhone may have a slightly smaller screen, yes, but it has a much better resolution, a much brighter screen, and the screen doesn't ghost - at all. Not familiar with ghosting? Watch video on a PSP screen. You'll see massive ghosting effects....I assure you, the iPhone>PSP for movie watching, at least for now.
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Monty
04/07/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: The iPhone has a much better resolution than the PSP? What are the resolutions of the two? Clearly I am not paying attention because the movies I have watched on both look very comparable.
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ACoBildo
02/27/09

In reply to Sony Not Denying Plans for a PSP 2 Without UMD
I haven't heard anybody talk about having multiple games. If my memory is full and I want to play something else, will I have to 1) Find a WiFi connection 2) Delete one of my games 3) Wait to download another? Heaven forbid I want to do this on a plane. This is a portable system people. I'd rather carry around a few UMDs.
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bosskev
02/27/09

@ACoBildo: You make an excellent point. If Sony is to go with a downloads-only scheme, they are compelled to also include internal memory (SSD?) sufficient in size to hold a full collection of games. And then a convenient way to back it up.
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ZLevee
02/27/09

In reply to Sony Not Denying Plans for a PSP 2 Without UMD
Fix the fucking screen!
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CrispyAardvark
02/27/09

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Wonder what the format for game purchases will be? Large format Sony Memory Stick / Duo? Or more mainstream CF?
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regnez
02/27/09

@CrispyAardvark:

The format for purchasing games will likely (hopefully?) be downloads only.

But let's not kid ourselves here -- this is Sony. Whatever the next PSP uses for storage, you can bet it is going to be outdated, overpriced, and proprietary.
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bosskev
02/27/09

@CrispyAardvark: Knowing Sony? Probably yet another new, ridiculously-proprietary format that no one wants and will remain limited to Sony products before it eventually dies out (only to be replaced by yet another Sony proprietary format...)
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DMC-Man
02/27/09

@regnez: Download-only as the source for getting games will not work for the same reasons that nothing else is completely download-only.

I'm going to agree that if no UMDs, it'd have to be a memory stick or something, if not another tiny cd.
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yomachaser
02/27/09

@DMC-Man:

Apple's incredible success with the iphone/ipod touch says you're dead wrong.
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bosskev
02/27/09

@yomachaser: As much as you are right about the iPhone, I am not sure I can agree with you that a downloads-only system is a slam/dunk for the PSP. Radically different file sizes mean the two systems can't compare. demonic_pascal states the case well down below.
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
02/25/09

In reply to PSP 2 Coming In Time for Holiday '09?
The only reason to won a PSP is to mod it IMO. I bought a PSP and all I did was run DOOM and a bunch of emulators. Returned it to Walmart a couple months later.
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
02/25/09

@Life Is Eat And Die: own
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Serolf Divad
02/25/09

In reply to PSP 2 Coming In Time for Holiday '09?
But will there still be a consumer economy in the Fall of '09?
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Epoch's apple copyright violation
02/25/09

In reply to PSP 2 Coming In Time for Holiday '09?
i still have my psp phat.

i love that thing.

of course, the main reason i love it is because it'll play final fantasy 1-9, is a universal remote control, will stream media from my computer, run mac system 7, most zelda games, etc...
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